US: Maduro, Other Venezuelan Leaders Plotted to Send 'Flood' of Cocaine
Charges include a Miami indictment against Venezuela's chief justice, who allegedly took a cut on the seizure and sale of a General Motors auto factory.
March 26, 2020 at 02:02 PM
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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and 14 current and former officials laundered money and committed other crimes in an alleged narco-terrorism conspiracy to "flood" the United States with cocaine, the Justice Department charged Thursday.
In a livestreamed news conference, U.S. Attorney General William Barr said Maduro and other political, judicial and military leaders across the Venezuelan government worked with Colombia's FARC rebels to ship 200 to 250 metric tons of the drug by air to locations in North America.
Geoffrey Berman, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, said the scheme operated for more than two decades and represented a deliberate attempt to "flood the United States with cocaine."
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